Lori Loughlin has moved to legally end her marriage to fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli, filing for divorce after more than 28 years together.

News surfaced last October that Loughlin and Giannulli, parents to daughters Olivia Jade, 26, and Isabella “Bella” Rose, 27, had separated.

The former couple became widely known for their involvement in the “Varsity Blues” college admissions scandal, after using fraudulent means to secure their daughters’ admission to the University of Southern California. Both later served overlapping prison sentences in connection with the case.

In the divorce filing, Loughlin gave the couple’s date of separation as August 31, 2025, and cited irreconcilable differences as the reason for dissolving the marriage.

According to legal documents obtained by the Daily Mail, Loughlin stated that an agreement regarding financial support will be negotiated at a later date.

The couple signed a prenuptial agreement on October 28, 1997 – the month before they eloped – and flied an amendment to it on August 11, 2015.

Loughlin is represented by attorneys Kristina Royce – whose celebrity clientele has included Channing Tatum and Jeff Garlin – and Sarah Luetto.

The Daily Mail has contacted Loughlin’s representatives for comment.

In the initial aftermath of their split, a source claimed Loughlin left Giannulli after discovering a cache of ‘incriminating’ emails and texts on his phone.

‘Truly, the tipping point came when Lori found a bunch of text messages,’ a friend of the Full House actress sensationally alleged to Page Six. 

‘Mossimo had used Lori for years,’ the insider said. ‘She was hoping maybe he would change when he got out of prison, but he got worse.’

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News of the separation broke hours after a distraught-looking Loughlin was seen sharing a comforting embrace with her friend and sometime co-star James Tupper, who used to be involved with the late Anne Heche, via TMZ.

The day Mossimo’s break with Loughlin went public, he was glimpsed out and about in Beverly  Hills with 32-year-old stylist Hannah Harrison.

Harrison swung into action to clarify the nature of their relationship, insisting that her equation with the fashion designer was strictly ‘platonic,’ via Us Weekly. 

‘I feel like it was bad timing,’ she said, insisting she met him for work at a supply store for his brand G/FORE ‘not knowing that his separation had been announced.’

Giannulli and Loughlin eloped two days before Thanksgiving 1997, two years after she concluded her star-making run on the smash hit sitcom Full House.

They achieved a searing degree of notoriety as a couple over the college admissions scandal, which landed both of them behind bars.

In 2019, Loughlin and Giannulli were exposed as having bribed their daughters’ way into USC, paying $500,000 to a fixer in order to falsely pass off Olivia and Bella as potential rowers on the university’s team.

The day her parents were indicted, Olivia was holidaying on the yacht of the USC trustee board’s billionaire chairman Rick Caruso, who later ran unsuccessfully for Mayor of Los Angeles against the present incumbent Karen Bass.

Although Giannulli and Loughlin initially claimed to be innocent, he ultimately pled guilty to conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud and honest services and mail fraud, while she pled guilty to conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud.

Loughlin spent two months in federal prison at CI Dublin in California before being released in December 2020, days before New Year’s. 

Meanwhile, Giannulli had to spend five months in prison for his role in the bribery scheme and was ultimately released in early April 2021. 

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi reported a sizable household investment in Bloom Energy, valued somewhere between $3 million and $12 million, only weeks before news broke that the company would be added to the S&P 500 — a development that helped push its stock sharply higher.

The trades were made through accounts owned by Pelosi’s husband, wealthy investor Paul Pelosi, according to a financial transaction disclosure the San Francisco Democrat signed on Aug. 21.

The filing shows that on July 24, a household account bought 10,000 shares of Bloom Energy in a transaction listed between $1 million and $5 million. The account also purchased 100 call options, likewise valued between $1 million and $5 million. Based on the lowest reported ranges, the two trades were worth at least $2 million combined. Bloom Energy shares closed that day at $184.89.

A second round of buying followed on July 28, when the stock had slipped to $166.84 per share. That day, the account added another 5,000 shares, valued at roughly $500,000 to $1 million, along with 100 additional call options reported in the same $500,000 to $1 million range — bringing that day’s disclosed purchases to between $1 million and $2 million.

The initial Pelosi-linked trades came after a steep pullback in Bloom Energy’s share price, while the later purchases landed on the same day the company released highly optimistic earnings results. The report included annual revenue growth of 165%, a figure that helped fuel a major rally in the stock in the days that followed.

Weeks later, on Sept. 4, it was announced that Bloom Energy will officially join the S&P 500 later this month – sending the stock up nearly 40% over the past five days. 

The stock was trading at $282.10 a share Tuesday afternoon.

Pelosi has repeatedly denied accusations of insider trading. She has also voiced support for a ban on congressional stock trading – though her household account has continued to disclose hefty Wall Street transactions.

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“Speaker Pelosi does not own any stocks and has no knowledge or subsequent involvement in any transactions,” a spokesperson for Pelosi’s office told The Post in a statement.

Bloom Energy – which is based in San Jose, Calif. – makes fuel cell systems, a business that has boomed alongside the rapid rise of power-hungry AI data centers. 

The stock has more than doubled so far this year and is up more than 400% over the past 12 months. It has a market cap of nearly $83 billion.

Pelosi has faced heated blowback for her family’s trading activity – racking up a 65% return on her portfolio in 2023 while her venture capitalist husband made $38 million worth of stock trades in the weeks leading up to President Trump’s inauguration.  

In early 2023, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) introduced a stock trading ban called the Preventing Elected Leaders from Owning Securities and Investments Act – or the PELOSI Act.

A “Pelosi Tracker” app also tracks the trading activity of the ex-speaker and other members of Congress, with more than 20,000 “copiers” trading an estimated $44 million, according to the site.

Members of Congress and their families are required to make financial disclosures via the 2012 STOCK Act, which says trades over $1,000 must be revealed within 45 days of the transaction or within 30 days of being notified of a transaction within their accounts, whichever comes first. 

Late filing penalties are minimal, with first-time fines starting at $200.

The Smithsonian Institution’s top official revealed Tuesday that he plans to retire, a major leadership change that comes as the museum network faces intensifying scrutiny from the Trump administration over its management and cultural direction.

Lonnie Bunch III, who became Smithsonian secretary in 2019 after serving as the founding director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, said he intends to step away from the role before the end of the year.

“It is with very mixed emotions and heartfelt gratitude that I announce my retirement from the Smithsonian,” Bunch said in a press release. “I have spent nearly half of my life working at and being part of the Smithsonian family, and what a privilege it has been. There is no place like the Smithsonian — it has been one of the great loves of my life, and I am extraordinarily proud of what we have accomplished together.” 

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“I leave with pride and sadness, gratitude and joy, and with enormous confidence in the people who will carry this remarkable institution forward,” he added.

This is a developing news story; check back for updates.

Marie downgraded but still being felt in California

Anxiety is growing inside Democratic circles over a crucial part of the party’s coalition as the November midterm elections draw closer.

Some Jewish voters are becoming increasingly uneasy with what they see as a lack of forceful pushback from certain Democrats against antisemitism within the party’s progressive wing — a concern that could carry real consequences in competitive U.S. Senate races across the country.

Still, a poll conducted in early March by the Jewish Electorate Institute, a nonprofit 501 organization, found that close to three-quarters of Jewish voters said they still intended to support Democratic candidates.

In Michigan, Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed is trying to repair relations with Jewish voters after a difficult primary campaign in which he made comments about Jews and the state of Israel that critics found offensive.

One Michigan rabbi who spoke with the New York Times said that although his congregation is “predominantly Democratic,” many members remained divided over whom to support in the Senate race.

‘I was very disappointed in the primary season in particular that so many politicians and pundits and podcasters seem to single out Israel and American supporters of Israel for criticism,’ Rabbi Starr told the Times.

Over 400 Jewish Democrats and Independents signed a public pledge to back El-Sayed’s Republican opponent, former Congressman Mike Rogers. 

El-Sayed’s campaign has made efforts to reach out to Jewish voters after the primaries. 

In Texas, the party’s Democratic nominee James Talarico has called Israel’s actions in Gaza ‘ war crimes’ and advocated for the US to not arm Israel. He does support Israel’s right to be a Jewish state. 

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In a statement to NBC, Talarico’s campaign manager Seth Krasne said his candidate has a ‘longstanding record combating antisemitism, defending Jewish students on the floor of the Texas House, and supporting Israel’s right to exist,’ which ‘demonstrates his steadfast commitment to Jewish safety.’

In Georgia, Democrat Jon Ossoff who is himself Jewish, has been criticized for not having ‘ironclad’ support for Israel in his competitive re-election race.

From coast to coast, the level of support Democratic primary candidates received from AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee which is made up of US citizens who are supportive of pro-Israel policies, was used as a wedge issue. 

In a number of states, from New York to Michigan and Minnesota, AIPAC – backed incumbent Democrats at often times representing the more moderate wing of their party lost to Progressive insurgents who were anti-Israel at best and straight up anti-Semitic at worst.

Joel Rubin, a former deputy assistant secretary of state from the Obama administration who was also the Jewish outreach director for Bernie Sanders 2020 campaign, noted in an August op-ed in the Free Press that even then, the campaign realized that Jews ‘were an important constituency for Sanders, and they worried that anti-Zionist voices in his coalition would jeopardize his Jewish support.’   

Jewish candidates including Scott Wiener in California’s San Francisco Bay Area and Brad Lander in New York City who ousted fellow Democrat Dan Goldman have been criticized for not being progressive enough just because they are Jewish.

Sam Markstein, spokesman for the Republican Jewish Coalition told the Daily Mail, that ‘the Republican Party is the only political home where American Jews can be proudly Jewish and loudly pro-Israel — and the Democrats have made the contrast impossible to miss by handing their party over to the far-left mob.’

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who was elected to his job last year despite his questionable views on Jews and Muslims, was asked by some of his constituents including the families of 9-11 victims to not attend the 25th anniversary ceremony of the tragedy this week, but he has stated that he plans to be there anyways. 

With 56 days remaining until the November midterms, the support of Jewish voters appears to be up for grabs in several critical contests across the country, which could determine the control of congress next year.

Shohei Ohtani remains banged up, and the Los Angeles Dodgers star isn’t pretending a quick turnaround is coming before the team’s season reaches its end.

But recognizing the situation is not the same as giving in to it.

Ohtani said he believes he can continue playing despite lingering discomfort in his right arm and left knee. Rather than waiting for his body to feel perfect, he plans to adjust his swing and work around the restrictions he is facing.

“With some creativity, I think I can make up for what’s not right,” Ohtani said in Japanese. “Another way to say it is that it’s an opportunity to create new ways to compete.”

So the issue is not whether Ohtani is willing to push forward.

What’s unknown is whether what he said is even possible. What does he plan on doing, teach himself how to hit on one leg with one arm?

Ohtani played on Monday for the first time in five days and was 0 for 3 with a walk in a 6-3 win over the Cincinnati Reds at Dodger Stadium.

Striking out twice, he was about as non-threatening as he was the last time he played. Circling his forearm after fouling off a pitch in the seventh inning, he looked as physically compromised as he did last week.

Picturing this version of Ohtani as an offensive contributor in the playoffs feels unrealistic, but it’s not as if the Dodgers have a choice but to let him try to figure out something. Their offense isn’t the same when he’s not producing. 

Besides, if anyone can do the unthinkable, it’s Ohtani, who became a two-way player in the major leagues when the odds were believed to be stacked against him.

He’s not afraid to fail, and he’s not ashamed when he does.

Which is why he said he didn’t regret his attempt to return to the mound this season, even though it’s almost certainly responsible for his diminished physical state.

“If there was a chance I could contribute on the pitching side, I think September was the time to throw with that goal in mind,” Ohtani said. “I think we went for it at the appropriate time. 

“The result of that was a feeling that this season didn’t go well.”

Problems with his arm and knee kept from pitching after his start on July 3. But Ohtani did everything in his power to pitch again, and that probably cost him whatever chance he had of healing his arm and knee.

“For a pretty long time, it felt like there were times it got better and times it got worse,” Ohtani said. “I tried throwing, tried making adjustments, tried throwing live batting practice. When I raised the intensity, I felt the effects, and there were questions of whether I could contribute in the postseason. I think what the team didn’t want most was for me to push myself to where I couldn’t play as a hitter.”

When the Dodgers indicated they wanted him to abort his pitching comeback, Ohtani said, “I wanted to obey them.”

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Ohtani sounded at peace with the decision.

On the prospect of him pitching again this season, he said, “I think there’s almost no chance of that.”

Ohtani added, “Right now, I think I want to focus on offense.”

Breaking out of his slump might require him to do so.

Ohtani is six for his last 52. He has only one home run in his last 22 games played outside of Coors Field in high-altitude Denver.

“I don’t feel extremely uncomfortable,” he said. “I don’t feel I’m especially late.”

In his view, he’s just missing the ball.

“It’s just that when I think I’m squaring it up, it goes foul,” he said. 

Ohtani didn’t blame his recent cold streak on his health, but he didn’t say his physical problems weren’t responsible for his decline in form, either.

Not feeling extremely uncomfortable doesn’t mean he doesn’t feel uncomfortable. Not feeling especially late doesn’t mean he doesn’t feel late.

Ohtani acknowledged he was concerned about his lead arm and back leg, and that he didn’t expect to feel healthy anytime soon.

“Just moving will, of course, slow down the recovery,” he said. “Whether it’s pitching or hitting, I think doing nothing and resting is the best.”

Ohtani didn’t plan on doing that, probably figuring that he was more likely to figure out how to perform with a broken-down body than he was to restore his health over the remainder of the regular season.

Rather than complain about the obstacles, Ohtani said he was in search of solutions.

“I think there are things that I’ve done until now that I’ll have to change,” he said.

He didn’t view himself as a lost cause.

“If I make adjustments,” he said, “I think my form will sufficiently improve.”